NURS 427 - Community Engagement IV

Units: 1 ; Breadth Area: Diversity
Delivery of culturally inclusive, community-based healthcare and selected issues of disparities in health outcomes for adults with chronic or complex illness. Includes both in-class sessions and field experiences in settings serving adults with complex healthcare needs. Note: The Diversity Overlay requirement is satisfied upon completion of the four-course series, NURS 317, NURS 327, NURS 417 and NURS 427.

Prerequisites: B.S. Nursing major and NURS 417.
Co-requisites: NURS 420, NURS 421.
Possible Instructional Methods: On-ground.
Grading: CR/NC grading only.
Breadth Area(s) Satisfied: Overlay - Diversity
Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring

Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:

Use concepts of community engagement and culturally inclusive community-based healthcare outcomes in field experiences with adults with complex or chronic health matters.
Design and implement strategies to promote health in the community for adults with complex or chronic health matters.
Critically reflect on and discuss issues that contribute to disparities in healthcare outcomes for adults with complex or chronic health matters.
Analyze community field experience using reflection and critical thinking
Implement evidenced based practices for conducting community assessments with an emphasis on resources, services and barriers to healthcare.

Diversity Overlay Learning Outcomes

describe the histories and/or experiences of one or more U. S. cultural groups and the resilience and agency of group members;
identify structures of oppression and the diverse efforts and strategies used by groups to combat the effects of oppressive structures;
analyze the intersection of the categories of race and gender as they affect cultural group members’ lived realities and/or as they are embodied in personal and collective identities;
recognize the way that multiple differences (including, for example, gender, class, sexuality, religion, disability, immigration status, gender expression, color/phenotype, racial mixture, linguistic expression, and/or age) within cultural groups complicate individual and group identities.